Reply #4: Agreed, but they are not ready to call for them directly.

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The words that Cobb uses seem radical only because virtually no Democrat is calling for them. They use euphemisms (like affordable healthcare) because they are afraid to be called socialists (and are right to be afraid).

I know I am a Green at heart and really wished that the Democrats would at least make an effort to move the center to the left and not themselves to the center (damn Clinton for that), but it is difficult to accomplish and particularly because of the triangulation politics that we have had these last few years.

Frankly, Cobb is an idiot and I dont even feel I want to discuss about him. Nader and him have been dragging the Green movement away from any reasonnable standard, unfortunately. That does not mean that part of what these people are saying is not true. The Democrats are sometimes afraid of using the strong words just the same way some are bothered being called liberal or progressive.